Month: December 2022

Loved your Spotify Wrapped this year? Well, re-watching your Wrapped story just got a little easier.

To re-watch your story, users must open their Spotify app (on Android or iOS) and look for the “Spotify Wrapped” section on the homepage. The first tile selection will have a “Play” button feature in yellow that you will need to tap, and viola! After you tap the tile, your Wrapped stories from 2022 will begin playing. Users can tap the left or right of the screen to go to the previous or next screen.

But if that doesn’t work, there are other ways to access your Wrapped stories. If the prompt for Wrapped is not visible on the homepage, then you can tap the search bar in the app, and the “2022 Wrapped” option should appear as a banner across the top of the screen.

Alternatively, you can type “Wrapped” in the search bar and select the “2022 Wrapped” genre option (which is displayed in the search results). From there, users will need to tap the large banner to start watching their Wrapped stories.

This year the music platform giant has rolled out a new feature for its users that will help offer listeners a “personalized Wrapped experienced” with its new “listening personality” feature.

“Your Listening Personality is a new feature that not only tells you about the music you listen to but what that says about your music taste — bringing a whole new layer of personalization and insight to the entire Wrapped experience,” according to a recent statement.

At least 16 kinds of “personalities” have been created for Spotify Wrapped 2022, including the adventurer, the early adopter, the deep diver, the devotee, and more.

When it comes down to it, 2022 was really Bad Bunny’s year. For the AMAs, he was the most-nominated artist of the year, receiving eight total nods. Spotify declared him the most-streamed artist of the year, and Apple Music named him their Artist Of The Year.

He’s not done making history. The legacy of Un Verano Sin Ti continues today with the announcement that the album landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums year-end chart. Un Verano Sin Ti was at No. 1 for an unrelenting 13 weeks in a row, the most since Drake’s Views in 2016. It’s also the first Latin LP and the first all-Spanish release to finish as the year-end No. 1 Billboard 200 Album.

In September, the singer was also the most-nominated artist at this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards and ended up winning nine awards, such as Artist Of The Year, Tour Of The Year, and Top Latin Album Of The Year. And he’s been celebrating appropriately; at one point, he brought 80 of his friends out to dinner at a Puerto Rican restaurant in the Bay Area. “Over the phone, they just said, ‘We have 80 Puerto Ricans,’” Francisco Gomez of San Rafael Puerto Rican staple Sol Food told the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about the encounter.

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a car talk to a robot gorilla, you’re in luck. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — the seventh film in the Transformers franchise, and first since 2018’s series-best Bumblebee — is described as “a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new breed of Transformer – the Maximals – to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.” Basically, it’s Beast Wars, which is big news for people of a certain age. For everyone else, some of the robots are voiced by Peter Dinklage, Ron Perlman, and Michelle Yeoh, which is cool.

You can watch the dialogue-light trailer (which is set to Notorious B.I.G.) above.

“What’s interesting about Transformers overall is that there are different breeds, different insignias, and different groups, and Beast Wars happens to be one of them. There were these robots whose disguise was animal form, and we have them in our film,” directer Steven Caple Jr. explained to Collider about Beast Wars. “In our film, they’re these prehistoric animals that travel through time and space, and we find them here on Earth.”

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which also stars Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Tobe Nwigwe, Peter Cullen, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio, David Sobolov, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Pete Davidson, and Cristo Fernández, opens on June 9, 2023.

Fox News may have (reportedly) edited Kanye West’s recent Tucker Carlson interview to remove an anti-Semitic rant about “fake children” that he claimed were in his home and planted there. However, no such editing is to be expected from Infowars, where host Alex Jones presides over ceremonies with as much right-wing provocativeness as possible during Kanye’s Dec. 1 visit. White supremacist podcaster Nick Fuentes was also in attendance, in case you were wondering, and let’s just say that Kanye is diving further into a very dark place.

Ye has had quite a week already after revealing that he owes $50 million in taxes, and his divorce settlement includes a child-support determination that left people thinking that he manifested with those “Gold Digger” lyrics. And now, there’s this: Kanye in a full mask with a bible and dropping more anti-Semitism, as Consequence’s Alex Young pointed out on Twitter.

The visit quickly took a turn when Kanye expressed admiration for Hitler, who he apparently believes invented the Autobahn. And this quote actually happened: “Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”

Here’s the full quote, and Alex Jones seemed uncharacteristically quiet (and possibly uncomfortable, if that’s possible) while this Nazi love happens:

“I see good things about Hitler also. I love everyone, and Jewish people are not gonna tell me, ‘You can love us and what we’re doing to you with the contracts and what we’re pushing with the pornography…’ But this guy who invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud anything good that this person ever did.”

From there, Ye went on a tear about his belief that “anyone who looks at pornography is a form of a pedophile also.”

According to a thread from The Daily Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo, Kanye also declared that Alex and Nick would be tweeting from his account, so there’s also that mess to look forward to ducking. But it says a lot that Alex Jones may have felt “off” about what came out of Kanye’s mouth on Infowars.

Former US President Bill Clinton joined the widespread chorus honoring Christine McVie after her passing on Wednesday, November 30. The former Fleetwood Mac member’s family confirmed the 79-year-old’s death in a statement posted to her social accounts, noting McVie died “following a short illness” at the hospital and surrounded by her family. No further details about her cause of death have been given.

“I’m saddened by the passing of Christine McVie,” Clinton tweeted Wednesday night. “‘Don’t Stop’ was my ’92 campaign theme song — it perfectly captured the mood of a nation eager for better days. I’m grateful to Christine & Fleetwood Mac for entrusting us with such a meaningful song. I will miss her.”

The tweet included a one-minute video of footage from Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. “The tradition of a presidential campaign song dates back to 1800, when John Adams supporters sang the tune ‘Liberty And Adams,’” the video’s captions read. “[‘Don’t Stop’] had reached #3 on the pop charts in 1977 and appealed to Clinton’s baby boomer demographic. After breaking up in 1987, the original Fleetwood Mac lineup reunited for one night, to perform ‘Don’t Stop’ at Clinton’s 1993 Inaugural Gala. ‘Don’t Stop’ became indelibly linked with Clinton, playing at his rally and convention appearances in the years following his presidency.”

McVie joined Fleetwood Mac as its first female vocalist in 1970 and retired from the iconic British-American band in 1998. She had married bassist John McVie in 1968. They divorced in 1976. She retired from Fleetwood Mac in 1998, the same year the band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, but she returned in 2014 to tour.

Stevie Nicks, who joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, also publicly grieved McVie with a handwritten note.

There is absolutely no way anyone at all is surprised by this news, but YouTube officially announced its Top 10 songs of the year, and wouldn’t you know it, the Encanto soundtrack’s inescapable breakout hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” is right at the top of the list. The surprise smash topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in February following the release of the film on Disney+, prompting an all-star performance of the song at the Oscars complete with a new Megan Thee Stallion verse.

In fact, the only one surprised by the song’s success was its writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda. In March, he told Los Angeles Times that he believed a different song from the soundtrack would become the runaway hit. “I would have swapped ‘Colombia, Mi Encanto’,” he said. “‘Colombia, Mi Encanto ’is such a party tune: ‘This could maybe have a little life beyond the movie.’ And the fact that the ensemble song that is incredibly plot-heavy and almost requires having seen the film to fully understand is the one at the top of the charts is one of the most delightful and hilarious surprises … of my life.”

While many attempts to explain Bruno’s popularity have been made over the course of 2022, you can experience it for yourself at the top of the page. Pay attention to the balcony during Dolores’ verse — even Bruno himself can’t resist the groove as the rest of the Madrigal family roasts his entire existence.

As for the rest of YouTube’s top 10 songs list, you can check that out below.

1. Encanto Cast – “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”
2. Kodak Black – “Super Gremlin”
3. Jessica Darrow – “Surface Pressure”
4. Bad Bunny – “Tití Me Preguntó”
5. Future – “Wait for U” feat. Drake, Tems
6. Bad Bunny, Chencho Corleone – “Me Porto Bonito”
7. Karol G, Becky G – “Mamiii”
8. Imagine Dragons x JID – “Enemy”
9. Karol G – “Provenza”
10. Lil Baby – “In a Minute”

Get ready, Bardi Gang: Cardi B might be taking over your airwaves soon.

While chatting with Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee, and DJ Envy on The Breakfast Club, the radio hosts asked her if she would be interested in coming to the radio show to host as a part of her rollout.

“You wanna come guest host in the new year, Cardi,” Charlamagne asks.

The New York rapper jokingly responded that she “would bring that sh*t down” but seemed more than happy at the idea of hosting the popular morning show. The radio hosts even proposed that the rapper would be able to bring up any artist of her choosing to interview.

“That would be dope,” Cardi responded. “Yeah, I could do that.”

It’s been nearly four years since Cardi B released her debut album, 2018’s Invasion Of Privacy, which spawned hits such as “Bodak Yellow” and “I Like It,” featuring J Balvin and Bad Bunny.

While the “Bickenhead” rapper has not officially announced the possible upcoming album, she has stayed quite busy — this past summer, she dropped “Hot Sh*t” featuring Lil Durk and Kanye West. Most recently, her collaboration with GloRilla, “Tomorrow 2,” has become a runaway hit. Cardi also made an unexpected appearance during GloRilla’s debut performance at the 2022 American Music Awards, rapping and dancing alongside the Memphis rapper.

It’s not clear when we’ll be getting a new Cardi project (presumably sometime next year), but either way, we’ll be patiently waiting.

Reporters are supposed to ask the right questions to get to the truth but sometimes it seems sports reporters ask questions to throw you off your game. There’s no doubt that this Iranian reporter who was questioning Tyler Adams, the US soccer team captain at the press conference during the World Cup had an agenda that didn’t involve getting to the truth.

It’s not clear if the questions were designed to throw the young player off of his game or if the goal was embarrassment. It really is hard to tell, but Adams handled the unexpectedly harsh encounter with intelligence and poise when some may have found it justified for him to get angry.

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The World Cup is being played in Qatar and Iran’s soccer team is in attendance. There have been reports that the Iranian players were threatened with their family members facing “violence and torture” after the team refused to sing the Iranian national anthem. But there was tension with the Iranian government and the American players after the US soccer team displayed the Iranian flag without the Iranian Republic emblem.

Maybe the flag mishap spurred the reporters loaded questions. When the Iranian reporter first addresses Adams, he immediately chastises him for not knowing the correct pronunciation of Iran before moving on to an interesting question choice.

The reporter asked Adams, “are you ok to be representing a country that has so much discrimination against Black people in its own boarders and you saw the Black Lives Matter Movement over the past few years. Are you OK the US meanwhile there’s so much discrimination happening against Black people in America”

Adams, did not get defensive about the correction but responded by apologizing about mispronouncing the name of the country. The player’s response to the rest of the question proves the young captain’s emotional maturity and why he’s captain of the US soccer team.

Watch his entire response below:

We’ve now come to the last month of 2022. Around this time of the year, it’s year-end award season for the South Korean entertainment industry. And for K-pop, it’s the time of the year where some of the industry’s leading acts perform on grandiose stages and sometimes collaborate with other artists.

Because of this, you can probably expect way lesser promo schedules or K-pop releases on your radar compared to the last few months. Especially, since it is holiday season, keeping track of new music may fly above your heads. But that’s where we come in. Even though there may not be many releases this month, there are new highly-anticipated releases coming from some of K-pop’s finest acts. With that being said, check out all the new music and comebacks happening in December. See them all below.

XEED – The 1st Mini Album ‘Dream Land’

Newcomers to the K-pop scene, this quartet hails from Nature Space Entertainment. Their first EP drops on December 1 with their lead single “Dream Land”

RM – 1st Solo Album ‘Indigo’

Considered the most anticipated release of the month, BTS’ very own leader is set to drop his first studio album on Friday, December 2. The 10-track album contains a roster of star-studded features including Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Tablo, and more.

Yein – 버스정류장 (Bus Stop)

Lovelyz member Yein will release a digital solo single on December 2. The song “Bus Stop” is reportedly produced by Korean rapper and R&B artist Heize.

Yoon Jisung – 2nd Digital Single ‘12월 24일(December. 24)’

The former WANNA ONE member turned soloist is ready to make his return with a winter-themed release on December 5. This second single follows Yoon Jisung’s spring release with his EP MIRO.

SHINHWA WDJ – The 1st Mini Album Come To Life

K-pop’s first-generation pioneers are coming back but as a sub-unit. Originally part of the septet, SHINWA WDJ consists of members Minwoo, Dongwan and Junjin and are set to release their first EP on December 8.

Minho – The 1st Mini Album 〖CHASE〗

SHINee’s Flaming Charisma Minho will finally make his comeback after a year since “Heartbreak.” His first EP will get a digital release on December 6, while the physical is set for the following week (December 12).

SUPER JUNIOR – The 11th Album Vol.2 [The Road : Celebration]

K-pop’s leading second-generation boy group will release their eleventh studio album on December 15. From the looks of the current teasers, it seems like ELF (their fans) can expect something winter or holiday-themed for this release.

NewJeans – TBA

Already capturing the hearts of everyone from the moment they dropped music, NewJeans is ready to tease their next release with a pre-release single set for December 19. Though there isn’t any more information in terms of teasers or photos, it is worth noting the monster rookies of K-pop are set to release new music on January 2 of next year.

NCT Dream – Winter Special Mini Album “Candy”

Following a special two-day in-theater global screening of their movie NCT 127: In A Dream, one of NCT’s most popular sub-units are set to release a holiday EP on December 19.

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in December. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, December 2

• Årabrot — Heart EP (Pelagic Records)
• The Beach Boys — Sail On Sailor — 1972 (Capitol Records/UMe)
• Black Ox Orkestar — Everything Returns (Constellation Records)
• Eliza McLamb — Salt Circle EP (Royal Mountain Records)
• Georgia Maq — Live at Sydney Opera House EP (Our Golden Friend)
• Half Alive — Conditions Of A Punk (RCA Records)
• Kadhja Bonet — California Holiday EP (Ninja Tune)
• Metro Boomin — Heroes & Villains (Boominati Worldwide/Republic Records)
• Mynolia — All Things Heavy (Bronzerat Records)
• Nazz — Lost Masters & Demos (Purple Pyramid)
• NOFX — Double Album (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Paul McCartney — The 7” Singles Box (Capitol/UMe)
• RM — Indigo (Big Hit Music)
• Sarchasm — Conditional Love (Asian Man Records)
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids — I’M GOOD, HBU? (Fontana North/Distorted Muse)
• Sophie Jamieson — Choosing (Bella Union)
• Various Artists — Southeast of Saturn, Vol. 2 (Third Man Records)
• Wage War — The Stripped Sessions (Fearless Records)
• White Lung — Premonition (Domino)
• Yes – Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two (Rhino Records)

Friday, December 9

• A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie — Me Vs Myself (Highbridge/Atlantic)
• ††† (Crosses) — PERMANENT.RADIANT EP (Warner)
• Dead Meadow — Force Form Free (Blues Funeral Recordings)
• Emotional Oranges — The Juice Vol. III (Avant Garden)
• Idles — Five Years of Brutalism (Partisan Records)
• Justin Courtney Pierre — Permanent Midnight EP (Epitaph Records)
• Leland Whitty — Anyhow (Innovative Leisure)
• Lionheart — Welcome to the West Coast III (Fast Break)
• Lostboycrow — Indie Pop (Nettwerk)
• Mount Westmore — Snoop, Cube, 40, Short (Mount Westmore/MNRK Music Group)
• Puscifer — Existential Reckoning: Rewired (Alchemy BMG)
• Raw Poetic — Space Beyond the Solar System (22nd Century Sound)
• Sam Fender — Live From Finsbury Park (Polydor)
• Taken By Trees — Another Year (Rough Trade)
• Tor Lundvall — There Must Be Someone (Dais Records)
• Upsahl — Sagittarius EP (Arista Records)
• We Were Promised Jetpacks — A Complete One-Eighty EP (Big Scary Monsters)

Friday, December 16

• Ab-Soul — Herbert (Top Dawg Entertainment)
• Bre Kennedy — Clarity EP (Nettwerk)
• Cheap Trick — Live at the Whisky 1977 (Real Gone Music)
• Chief Keef – Almighty So 2 (43B)
• Circa Survive — Two Dreams (Rise Records)
• Frank Zappa — Waka/Wazoo (Bizarre/Reprise)
• Jacquees — Sincerely For You (Cash Money Records)
• Kurt Uenala — Manuscript EP (hfn music)
• Nakhane — Leading Lines EP (BMG)

Wednesday, December 21

• Mike — Beware of the Monkey (10k)
• Weezer — SZNZ: Winter EP (Crush Music/Atlantic Records)

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